Question

New to Android development and have decided to use NetBeans 6.9.1 as my IDE. So far the process has been somewhat painful, but I’m getting things rolling. However, I am creating an ImageView subclass for my first custom View and I can’t figure out how to add my Box.png file to the project. Drag and Drop doesn’t work, there are no right-click options to add a file to the Resources folder, no dropdown menus to add images, no way to add the image to a package. Could use some insight, thanks!

Answer 1

Just go to the project folder and copy the images you want into the res/drawable folder. The IDE helps you a lot with code completion, error checking, etc… but that simple task can be done by hand.

Then, you can reference your resources by using something like: R.drawable.image Notice that I’m not using the image extension. If you wonder what R is, let me give you a brief explanation:

Each resource that is saved in the resources directory is referenced in the R class. That’s a file that is autogenerated by Android and it’s used to reference those resources from your code. In this case, it will be in R.drawable.* since it’s a drawable resource. There are other kind of resources, like layouts: R.layout.something or strings R.string.whatever. That’s essential for the android development, so you better read some tutorials (or buy books) in order for you to get started.

So, in your case will be something like setImageDrawable(R.layout.wood); However, I highly recommend to read first a couple of tutorials. Google about it, you will find tons of them.